Oxy-Fuel Furnace Design Optimisation Using Coupled Combustion/Glass Bath Numerical Simulation

Oxy-fuel technology has emerged as a well-accepted glass melting technology, and a large body of knowledge is being accumulated from numerous successful furnace conversions. In addition, increasing acceptance of oxy-fuel technology has gone hand-in-hand with growing confidence in the ability of computer models to predict trends in furnace behaviour. In this study, state-of-the-art models for both the combustion space and batch/glass melt are used to study the effects of key design parameters on oxy-fuel furnace operation.